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Definition
a geographic region on the Eastern Coast of the Mediterranean in the Middle East, at various times comprising parts of modern Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Jordan, and Egypt
- All your skill was used up ages ago in Palestine, and you must lie fallow for a thousand years to git strength for more deeds!'3 — The Rally (54% in)
- Once upon a time Angel had been so unlucky as to say to his father, in a moment of irritation, that it might have resulted far better for mankind if Greece had been the source of the religion of modern civilization, and not Palestine; and his father's grief was of that blank description which could not realize that there might lurk a thousandth part of a truth, much less a half truth or a whole truth, in such a proposition.4 — The Consequence (7% in)
There are no more uses of "Palestine" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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